Eells, Nathaniel, Skaneateles, eldest son of Nathaniel and Alice (White) Eells, was born in Middletown (now Cromwell), Conn., Sept, 11, 1748, and married Huldah White, cousin of Judge Hugh White, the pioneer of Whitestown, N. Y. About 1784 the latter induced Mr. Eells to come to Whitestown, whence he removed in 1796, at the request of Judge White, to Skaneateles, to take charge of the mills that had been erected on the outlet by hjm and Judge Sanger. Mr. Eells subsequently purchased what is now known as the Pardee place, and died in Skaneateles on Jan. 7, 1815. He served in the Revolutionary war, at the battle of Bunker Hill with his brother Daniel, who came into Central New York about the same time (1784) and settled in New Hartford, Oneida Co. The children of Jonathan and Huldah Eells were Nathaniel jr., born in 1776; Richard, born in 1779; Clara, born m 1782; Sylvester, born in 1783 (all born in Middletown, Conn.) ; Susannah, born in 1785 ; Huldah, born in 1786 (both born in Whitestown, N. Y.); and Horace, born in Skaneateles in 1789. Nathaniel, jr., married Susan White, granddaughter of Judge Hugh White, who, when a little girl of five or six years, was left by her grandfather with an old Indian chief as hostage to prove his faith and confidence in the Indian's word, an act which gave Judge White the confidence and respect of the red men as long as he lived, and which ever afterward was of great benefit to the early settlers of this region, to whom the chief remained true and steadfast.Sylvester married Mary Mo^s Hall, a relative of Judge Hall, President Fillmore's partner, of Buffalo. He built on the east edge of the homestead in Skaneateles a tavern or stage house, which is still standing. He died in 1814, leaving his widow and two children. She afterwards married Noble Coe, of Skaneateles. Susannah married in 1803 Capt. Morris Loss, who was born in New Durham, Conn., in 1777, came to this town in 1802, and served as captain of militia at Sackett's Harbor m the War of 1812; he was a carpenter and builder, and died in July, 1853, from exhaustion consequent upon amputation of his leg, which was broken at a house he was building in Skaneateles. Their eldest daughter married John L. Ripley, of Spafford, and their son, Richard E. Loss, is now living in Savannah, Wayne Co., 85 years old and nearly blind. Horace Eells, the youngest child of Nathaniel, sr., married Asenath Newton and about 1830 moved to Batavia, N. Y., selling the homestead to Mr. Snook, an Englishman. It was finally sold to Mr. Pardee. The Eells family dame from a noted ancestry. John Eells emigrated from Barnstable, England, and settled in Dorchester, Fox Point, New Boston, about 1629, but later returned to England and served as an officer in Cromwell's army, dying in Barnstable. His son Samuel, born in Dorchester in 1639, returned to America upon reaching his majority, was married in Lynn in 1663 to Ann, daughter of Rev. Robert Lenthall, first pastor of Weymouth, Mass., and settled in Hingham. He was one of the company that moved from Dorchester to Windsor, Conn., with their pastor, Rev. Mr. Wareham; later he removed to Milford, Conn., and became prominent in the affairs of the colony. He was also conspicuous in King Philip's war and entered vigorous protest against the sale of captive Indians to the Bermudas as slaves. He died April 21, 1709, at Hingham, Mass.∼Age 66

Source: Skaneateles Historical Society